Parental Notification of Prohibited Activities

1. A method, comprising: monitoring activities performed by a home terminating telephone device; storing rules in memory of the home terminating telephone device that prohibit the activities of the home terminating telephone device; retrieving a rule from the memory that is associated with a user of the home terminating telephone device; determining a prohibited activity is attempted by the user of the home terminating telephone device; retrieving a notification address of a parent associated with the user; sending an instant message from the home terminating telephone device to the notification address to notify the parent of the prohibited activity and an identification of a name of the user that is attempting the prohibited activity; and prompting the parent at the notification address to authorize the prohibited activity.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising determining an incoming call is received at the home terminating telephone device.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising sending the instant message to notify the notification address of the incoming call.

4. The method according to claim 3 , further comprising including a calling number in the instant message.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising retrieving from the memory a log of activities of the home terminating telephone device.

6. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising sending the log of activities to the notification address.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising determining an outgoing call is sent from the home terminating telephone device.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising including a called number in the instant message to the notification address.

9. A system, comprising: a processor; and memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising: monitoring activities performed by a home terminating telephone device; storing rules that prohibit the activities of the device; retrieving a rule that is associated with a user of the home terminating telephone device; determining a prohibited activity is attempted by the user of the home terminating telephone device; retrieving a notification address of a parent associated with the user; sending an instant message from the home terminating telephone device to the notification address to notify the parent of the prohibited activity and an identification of a name of the user that is attempting the prohibited activity; and receiving authorization of the prohibited activity.

10. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an incoming call is received at the home terminating telephone device.

11. The system according to claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the instant message to notify the notification address of the incoming call.

12. The system according to claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise including a calling number in the instant message.

13. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise retrieving from the memory a log of activities of the home terminating telephone device.

14. The system according to claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the log of activities to the notification address.

15. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an outgoing call is sent from the home terminating telephone device.

16. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise including a called number in the instant message to the notification address.

17. A memory storing instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising: monitoring activities performed by a home terminating telephone device; storing rules that prohibit the activities of the home terminating telephone device; retrieving a rule that is associated with a user of the home terminating telephone device; determining a prohibited activity is attempted by the user of the home terminating telephone device; retrieving a notification address of a parent associated with the user; sending an instant message from the home terminating telephone device to the notification address to notify the parent of the prohibited activity and an identification of a name of the user that is attempting the prohibited activity; and receiving authorization of the prohibited activity.

18. The memory according to claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an incoming call is received at the home terminating telephone device.

19. The memory according to claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the instant message to notify the notification address of the incoming call.

20. The memory according to claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise including a calling number in the instant message.